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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-11 07:53 PM
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1. Edited with a "snip" and there IS A TRANSCRIPT there for folks who are hearing impaired or have Dial
Up...so you can read it.

The official U.S. response to events unfolding in Egypt remains mixed. Over the weekend, the Obama administration distanced itself from U.S. “crisis envoy” to Egypt Frank Wisner after he issued a statement in support of President Hosni Mubarak. Revealing a possible conflict of interest, British journalist Robert Fisk recently reported Wisner works for the law firm Patton Boggs, which openly boasts that it advises "the Egyptian military, the Egyptian Economic Development Agency, and has handled arbitrations and litigation on the government’s behalf in Europe and the U.S." We are joined by Trinity College Professor Vijay Prashad, who has written about Wisner’s history with the U.S. Department of State and his close relationship with Mubarak.

TRANSCRIPT and VIEW OF NEWS, HERE at..........

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/2/7/the_empires_bagman ...
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